Ticket



Nov. 13, 1934.

c. A. FLOOD 1,980,577

TICKET Filed Jan. 19, 1935 Ai S.

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Patented Nov. 13, 1934 PATENT oFFIcE TICKET Carl A. Flood, Framingham, Mass., assignor to 4Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application January 19, 1933,`Serial No. 652,467

6 Claims.

This invention relates to an'improved form of ticket, and particularly to a sectional ticket for employment vin providing price tags for gar- A ticket of this type is particularly adapted to be printed by the machine disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 652,468, filed January 19, 1933, as fully disclosed in that application. That application, which is incorporated by reference herein, discloses a recipocating carriage to carry feed fingers having prongs which may engage feed openingsin the tickets to advance successive ticket sections to a printing position. The present invention is therefore particularly directed to the arrangement of a ticket having a feed opening or openings therein between adjoining sections which may receive similar groups of indicia.

The principles of this invention may be applicable to a ticket having two' sections, onel of which, for example, may be kept in the office of a store where an article is to be sold and the other section of which may be attached to the article. A ticket of this type also may be provided with a plurality of sections, such as three or four sections, certain of these sections being capable of attachment, for example, to different garments making up a single unit of sale, such, for example, as a suit, the remaining section or stub being kept with another section until the article is sold, and then being returned to the office records.

Preferably a row of feed openings, as, for eX- ample, two feed openings, may be provided parallel to one of the edges of the ticket so that successive sections of the ticket may be advanced by engagement of the feed lfingers of the machine with the openings, the last section of the ticket being advanced by engagement of the feed fingers with one edge of the ticket.

Thus in practice the ticket preferably may have sections separated by a row of feed openings, one of said sections having a straight feeding edge. Preferably the first section to be printed has an extent which is less than that of the last section, i. e., the section between the last row of feeding openings and the feeding edge. This arrangement permits the convenient feeding of the ticket from a hopper in which a stack of tickets are placed without liability of engagement of the feed fingers with a ticket which is next above the ticket to be printed.

To facilitate ready separation of the ticket sections, a perforated line may be associated with the feed openings. A characteristic of printed tickets of this type is the arrangement of theprinted symbols at a distance from the effective' edges of the feed openings, which'v is equal to the distance of the symbols on the last section from the feeding edge of that section.

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Fig. 1 is a sectionalview'of a portion-of a machine such as'shown in my copending application Serial No. 652,468, which may be used to print tickets forming the subject matter of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a face view of a typical ticket made in accordance with the present'invention; and

Fig. 3 is a view of an optional form of ticket embodying the same principles.

For convenience of description the operation of the ticket feeding portion of a machine of the type disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 652,468 will first be described with reference to Fig. 1. Such a machine may have a Z5 swinging platen 1 carrying a carriage 2 sliding along a path of predetermined extent beneath the platen. Pivotally mounted on this carriage are feed fingers 3 having their ends yieldably urged upwardly and provided with prongs 4. 'I'he platen is provided with a central opening in which 'a stack of tickets T may be disposed, resting upon a plate 10. The outer end of the platen l is provided with a rubber platen block 1l disposed above a series of printing wheels W. The feed fingers and carriage are reciprocated back and forth by mechanism operating in synchronism with the platense that the feed fingers advance in the direction of the platen block 11, i.e. to the right as viewed in Fig. 3, when the platen swings upwardly away from the wheel assembly W and so that the fingers move to their retracted position when the platen 1 moves down to the illustrated printing position. A weight 14 may be disposed above the stacked tickets T to hold them in superposed position and yieldably to press them downwardly.

A ticket T formed in accordance with the present invention may have a plurality of sec- A100 tions A, B, C and D separated from each other by rows of feed openings 22. As shown, these feed openings preferably are in the form of elongate slots disposed in rows extending parallel to each pair of outer parallel edges of the 105 ticket, i.e. transversely and vertically as viewed in Fig. 2. As shown, each transverse row preferably comprises a pair of openings 22 spaced from each other and arranged with their longest dimensions extending in the same general 11o direction, Le., 'in alignment. Each of these feed openings may be rectangular, having a straight feeding edge 24 parallel to an outer feeding edge 25 of the ticket. As shown, the section-D adjoining the feeding edge 25 is relatively wider than the section A adjoining the opposite edge of the ticket for reasons that will be more fully described.

Each ofthe sections A, B and D may be provided witha perforation or opening 26 adjoining one end and spaced from the edges of the ticket sections to receive a string to facilitate the attachment of the ticket section to a suitable garment. The section C is not provided with such a perforation, since this section may be kept with the section D until the garment is sold and then returned tothe store office.

As shown in Fig. 1, tickets of this character are disposed with the sections A adjoining' the platen block 11 and with the wider sections D remote therefrom. Y When the machine is started the feed lingers 3 advance so that their prongs 4 engage the feeding edges 24 of the first row of feed openings 22 to advance the section A of the ticket beneath the platen, whereupon the feed fingers are retracted and theplaten moves downwardly to print the first section. Then the feed fingers may advance to move the second section B to printing position and the operation is repeated. Similarly section C may be moved to printing position. The prongs 4 have an extent less than the thickness of a ticket so that they do not engage the feed slots in two'tickets at the same time. When the ticket reaches the position illustrated in Fig. 1, the ngers 3 move forwardly so that the prongs 4 engage the feeding edge 25 of section D to move the same to printing position. The greater width of the section D assures the engagement of the prongs 4 with the feeding'edge before it Acanlengage feed openings 22 in the succeeding ticket. It is therefore evident that the greaterv width of the section Dis an important feature of the invention.

After this section is printed the feed fingers 4 engage the first row of feed4 openings 24 in the succeedingticket and advance the same to printing position, this ticket being effective in displacing the wider section D of the preceding ticket so that the same may pass downwardly into a suitable hopper or the like.

It is desirable to have the section D relatively wider than the section A, as described above, in order to preclude any possibility of the prongs 4 engaging the first row of feed openings in the ticket which is disposed within the hopper rather than in engaging the feeding edge 25 of the section D of the ticket which is in the position illustrated in Fig. 1.

A printed ticket prepared in the manner described is characterized by similar groups of symbols S which, in the cases of sections A, B, and C are equally spaced from the adjoining rows of feed openings 22, and particularly the feeding edges 24 thereof, while the symbols S on the section D are spaced at a similar distance from the feeding edge 25. In practice the machine may print relatively large or high symbols at one side of each ticket to indicate the size of the garment or the like and symbols or figures ofa similar size at the opposite side of the ticket to indicate the price, while between these relatively large symbols may be groups of smaller symbols compactly disposed on staggered lines affording suitable confidential information as to the quality, lot, source of supply,r etc., of the merchandise.

The greater width of section D also permits printing upon this section before the ticket goes through the machine applying the lines of symbols; for example, the name of the maker of the ticket or the name of the store, as John Doe, Inc., may be printed upon the larger section and still leave room for application of the special indicia to` identify size, lot, price, etc., which is applied byY printing on the wheel assembly W. Each of the sections may be provided with a space above the code symbols or the like which permits marking in additional prices when there are to be markdowns or special sales.

It is evident that the principles of this invention are applicable to tickets having different numbers of sections to suit the particular needs of the user of the tickets. As shown, for example, in Fig. 3, the ticket may comprise two sections A and D', separated by feed openings 22 provided With feeding edges 24 parallel to the outer feeding edge 25 of the section D'. Asshown, the section D has a width, i. e., a dimension between openings 22 and edge 25, greater than the corresponding dimension of section A' for the reasons already described.

vOne of the sections, as the section D', may be provided with a perforation 26 to receive a string for attachment of the ticket to an article of merchandise.

It is evident that the present, invention affords a sectional ticket, and particularly a ticket having two or more sections adapted to be used for price indicating purposes, which is conveniently fed through a printing machine Without necessity for special manual manipulation and which is conveniently provided with duplicate sets of indicia. `The ticket may be conveniently separated after printing to provide sections with similar sets of indicia, one of thesesections being suitable for the maintenance of records in the ollice of the store, and the remaining section or sections being suitable for attachment to articles of merchandise such as garments.

I claim:

1. A ticket comprising a substantially rectangular body of'sheet material having rows of feed openings extending parallel to one of the outer edges of the ticket and dening separable ticket sections, the row of feed openings adjoin' ing said parallel edge of the ticket being spaced therefrom at a greater distance than the spacing of the opposite edge of the ticket from the row of feed openings adjoining the same, Whereby the ticket has a plurality of. sections with the section adjoining one end having a smaller area than the section adjoining the opposite end.

2. `A ticket comprising a substantially rectangular body of sheet material having rows of Afeed openings extending parallel to o'he of the outer edges of the ticket and defining separable ticket sections, the row of feed yopenings adjoining said parallel edge of the ticket being spaced therefrom at a greater distance than the spacing of the opposite edge off the ticket from the-row 'of feed openings adjoining the same, whereby the tickethas a plurality of sections with the section adjoining one end having a.

smaller area than the section adjoining the opposite end, and printing upon the section of greater area. arranged to leave room for the impression of a group of symbols upon that section similar to a group of symbols to be impressed upon the opposite remote section.

3. A ticket comprising-a substantially rectangular sheet member, said member having feed openings between opposite parallel edges of the ticket defining a plurality of ticket sections, the openings being arranged so that the area of the section adjoining one of said edges is greater than that of the section adjoining the opposite edge. f

4. Av ticket comprising a body of sheet material having end and side edges and rows of `feed openings extending parallel to one of the end edges of the ticket and defining separable ticket sections, the row of feed openings adjoining one end edge of the ticket being spaced therefrom at a greater distance than the spacing of the other end edge of the ticket from the row of feed openings adjoining the same, whereby the ticket has a plurality of sections with the section adjoining one end and having a smaller width than the section adjoining the opposite end.

5. A ticket comprising a body of sheet material having end and side edges and rows of feed openings extending parallel to one of the end edges of the ticket and defining separable ticket sections, the row of feed openings adjoining one end edge of the ticket being spaced therefrom ata greater distance than the vspacing of the other'end edge of the ticket from the row of feed openings adjoining the same, whereby the ticket has a plurality of sections with the section adjoining one end edge having a smaller width than the section adjoining the opposite end, and printing upon the section of greater width arranged to leave room for the impression of a group of symbols upon that section similar to a group of symbols to be impressed upon the opposite remote section.

- 6. A ticket comprising a sheet member having end and side edges, said member having feed openings between opposite end edges of the ticket dening a plurality of ticket sections. the openings being arranged so that the width of the section adjoining one of said end edges is greater than that of the section adjoining the opposite edge. v

CARL A. FLOOD.

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